Blythe said the idea for Akenfield (he took the name from the old English “acen” for acorn) arrived as he tramped the Suffolk fields pondering the anonymity of most farm labourers’ lives.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/15/ronald-blythe-obituary

I tramped through the black earth region because that was once the richest farmland in Russia and because the correspondents have been forbidden to go there to see for themselves what is happening.

Source: https://theconversation.com/reporting-ukraine-90-years-ago-the-welsh-journalist-who-uncovered-stalins-genocide-200949

Lindsay, then a household name and troubadour of poetry who tramped across the country three times trading rhymes for bread, eulogized Altgeld’s integrity and bravery for pardoning the Haymarket anarchists.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/9/1/23856171/labor-day-john-peter-altgeld-haymarket-riot-anarchists-union-movement